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The United States contemplated a military confrontation with Tehran to try to
recover a stealth drone that went missing over Iranian territory during a
clandestine surveillance mission, The Times has learnt.

The incident last week, involving a jet-powered RQ170 Sentinel drone which the
Iranians claim to have shot down over the eastern town of Kashmar, has
exposed a previously unrecorded American operation of sending unmanned
aircraft from an airbase in Afghanistan into Iran to spy on its military and
nuclear facilities.

A US military source told The Times that the US was so intent on
safeguarding the secret mission that